A scalable method for fabricating electronic whiskers (e-whiskers)—a class of electronic skin—for sensing a variety of external stimuli, including proximity, texture mapping, surface roughness, material stiffness, force, and temperature.
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Sensors
Copper Nanowire Hedgehogs: Nature-Inspired SERS Substrates
A broadband visible-light-driven photocatalytic SERS platform with the CuO nanowires (NWs)/Cu2O hetero-nanostructures as the backbone.
Liquid Crystal/Hydrogel Biosensor Arrays
Biosensor arrays facbricated from two intertwinned polymeric networks.
Printing Touch Sensing Capabilities
Researchers create soft robots that can sense touch, pressure, movement and temperature.
Launching: Medical Devices & Sensors
A new international journal covering innovations in the science & engineering that underlie medical devices and medical sensors now accepting submissions.
Bending Sensor Foils
A sensor foil made from polymers withstands bending to a radius of 11 mm, and elongation by 1.4% without losing functionality.
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Enzyme-Like Hydrogel for Biosensing Applications [Video]
Professor Feng Zhang from Guangzhou Medical University, Professor Hao Pei from East China Normal University, and co-workers report a flexible electrochemical sensor based on a 3D-printable hydrogel. The device could be used as a glucose sensor, demonstrating its potential in biosensing applications.
Optimal in Optical: 2D Semiconductors, OLEDs, Metasurfaces, and Much More
This month’s top Advanced Optical Materials papers and covers.
Ultrasensitive Photodetector for Thermal Imaging and Sensing
A team of researchers design broadband field-effect phototransistors based on molybdenum disulfide. The photodetector has the ability to detect very weak optical signals and is promising for applications in thermal imaging and sensing.
Batch-of-One Meets Mass-Production
New transport system is pledging to boosts overall equipment effectiveness
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